# No steady state and NO IRF RESULTS

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**Category:** Steady state\
**Created:** [29 July 2020 10:47 UTC](https://forum.dynare.org/t/no-steady-state-and-no-irf-results/16330 "2020-07-29T10:47:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![jpfeifer](https://forum.dynare.org/user_avatar/forum.dynare.org/jpfeifer/32/5044_2.png) [@jpfeifer](https://forum.dynare.org/u/jpfeifer)\
**Post date:** [15 August 2020 18:08 UTC](https://forum.dynare.org/t/no-steady-state-and-no-irf-results/16330/24 "2020-08-15T18:08:25Z")

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I cannot answer that as I can only provide technical advice. It is your model and you need to decide how expectations are formed.  
Regarding estimation: See e.g.

> [@Limited number of observations](https://forum.dynare.org/t/limited-number-of-observations/3215/2):
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> My answer referred to the fact that using a two-sided HP-filter with just 32 observations will not work because the HP introduces considerable artifacts at the beginning and the end of the sample. If you use 32 observations, essentially your whole sample is affected. With Bayesian estimation, you can “estimate” your model without any data. Your result will simply be your prior. Nevertheless, ideally you want your data to be informative in order to update your prior. When you are dealing with bu…

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